Re: Octave Central (or something like that)

[Søren Hauberg]

Thomas Treichl skrev:
> Søren Hauberg schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >   Some months ago we discussed how to build something similar to the 
> > matlab central. I volunteered to look into using drupal 
> > (http://drupal.org) for such a web site. I have spent some time (not a 
> > lot, though) and I have come to the conclusion that I'm not up for 
> > this task. I believe drupal is a good tool for the task, but some 
> > functionality has to be implemented by us. The most basic 
> > functionality that needs to be implemented is a drupal plugin that 
> > will handle uploading of packages. I spent a little time on this, but 
> > to be honest I found the task to extremely boring. Doing web 
> > development is not really my thing, so this task felt like doing home 
> > work many years ago.
> >   So, I can't really do this work :-(  If anybody on this list loves 
> > web development and wants to give a hand, please speak up...
> >
> > Søren
>
> A few days ago I thought about 'asking Soren about the octavecentral 
> topic'. Now you gave an answer without asking ;-)
> Soren, I'd like to see such a page living very much but I can only say 
> 'this would be really great' I think that I can't help (I spent very 
> much time with the OS X topic at the moment and so I even don't have 
> time to improve my own SF package). I think an octavecentral however 
> would be welcome by a lot of people :)
I agree, octave-central would be a great thing. But like so many other 
great things it requires work :-(  And it seems that I'm not the right 
person for the job...

Søren

P.S. On a more personal note, I'm currently busy writing my master's 
thesis, so I don't have a lot of time to spare :-(